• 1883

    Heinrich Dreyer establishes AMAZONE to manufacture grain cleaners and later ploughs, cultivators and potato sorters.

  • 1906

    First exports of grain cleaning machines to Chile.

  • 1915

    First fertiliser spreader manufactured.

  • 1942

    First potato harvester manufactured.

  • 1949

     First seed drill manufactured.

  • 1958

    First twin disc fertiliser spreader manufactured.

  • 1959

    First manure spreader manufactured.

  • 1966

    Takeover of the market leadership at seed drills with the "AMAZONE D4"

  • 1967

    First PTO driven tillage and cultivation equipment manufactured.

  • 1969

    First crop protection sprayer manufactured.

  • 1979

    First rotary cultivator with tines "on grip" AMAZONE KG

  • 1980

    First twin disc fertiliser spreader with exchangeable discs (24 m working width) "AMAZONE ZA-U"

  • 1987

    First precision airseeder manufactured

  • 1990s

    First passive cultivation equipment manufactured.

  • 1992

    First fertiliser test laboratory established.

    First trailed crop protection sprayer manufactured.

  • 1995

    First satellite controlled fertiliser spreader via on-board computer (DGPS).

    First pneumatic seed drill manufactured.

  • 2002

    First Cirrus large area combination

  • 2005

    First AMATECHNICA field day showcases AMAZONE technology to customers throughout the world.

  • 2008

    50 years "AMAZONE ZA-fertiliser spreader" - 700,000 ZA fertiliser spreader sold 50,000th rotary cultivator and rotary harrows sold within 30 years

  • 2009

    First self-propelled crop protection sprayer manufactured.

  • 2010

    New fertiliser spreader test hall opened.

    Second AMATECHNICA field day.

  • 2013

    AMAZONE celebrates 130th anniversary.

  • 2014

    750,000th ZA twin disc fertiliser spreaders manufactured.